So what we really want to make it is a bunny slope – not a real fiscal cliff.

December 27, 2012

Former Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) speaking Wednesday about what the goals of Congress should be in regards to the fiscal cliff. He stressed that not all of the defense cuts take effect next year, so withholding the scheduled tax changes are the most important task in negotiations.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, criticizing President Trump's remarks on Tuesday about the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Va. Trump placed blame for the violence on both sides, suggested that creating more jobs will eliminate racism and defended white supremacists' cause against the removal of Confederate monuments.

Texas state Rep. Chris Turner, a Democrat, speaking in opposition of a bill that will require women to pay an extra health insurance premium for nonemergency abortions. GOP Gov. Greg Abbott signed the legislation on Tuesday.

De'Andre Harris, on being chased and beat with wooden poles by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. Harris, who was there to counterprotest the neo-Nazi groups, said a police officer finally came to his aid after five or six minutes. The city's police is under fire for

Tiana Nobile, who initially wasn't allowed to get married because she had her citizenship paperwork, passport and driver’s license but no birth certificate. A Louisiana judge, however, recently struck down a state law requiring birth certificates in order to issue a marriage license.

Leanne Robbin, a Maine assistant attorney general who successfully argued in federal court for a state law that bans protesters who are so loud they can be heard inside a building where people are receiving health services. The case centered around anti-abortion protesters outside a Planned Parenthood clinic.